%0 Journal Article %T Knowledge and attitudes of Indian surgeons regarding professional medical writing support %A Natasha Das %A Saurendra Das %J Archive of "Perspectives in Clinical Research". %D 2018 %R 10.4103/picr.PICR_88_17 %X The number of scientific papers published from India each year is low. We tried to determine how often Indian surgeons publish in biomedical journals, challenges preventing them from publishing more often, their awareness of the international guidelines that acknowledge professional medical writing as an ethical service, and their willingness to hire medical writers for their publications %K Ethics in medical writing %K medical writing %K professional medical writers %K surgeons %K writing assistance %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6058511/